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Building Better for all of Canada: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Building Better for all of Canada: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On Sept. 30, Canada honours the children who never returned home and the survivors of residentials schools along with their families and communities as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It’s also Orange Shirt Day, an Indigenous-led,...
Associations , Labour , Projects

Skills Ontario opens registration for International Day of the Girl events
TORONTO — Registration is now open for Skills Ontario’s International Day of the...
Labour

Indigeneity a key element to Centennial’s $112M A-Building design
The expansion of the A-Building at Centennial College is more than just an addit...
Infrastructure , Labour

Atlantic Canada feeling the labour pinch amid more housing, immigration challenges
A worker from Eastern Canada paints a bleak picture of the current status of the...
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Building Better for all of Canada: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On Sept. 30, Canada honours the children who never returned home and the survivo...
Associations , Labour , Projects

Skills Ontario opens registration for International Day of the Girl events
TORONTO — Registration is now open for Skills Ontario’s International Day of the...
Labour

Indigeneity a key element to Centennial’s $112M A-Building design
The expansion of the A-Building at Centennial College is more than just an addit...
Infrastructure , Labour

Atlantic Canada feeling the labour pinch amid more housing, immigration challenges
A worker from Eastern Canada paints a bleak picture of the current status of the...
Labour

Landscape architect Cormier leaves legacy of beloved public squares, parks
MONTREAL — Claude Cormier, founding principal of Claude Cormier & Associes L...
Labour

George Brown College’s Limberlost Place a smart building in every sense of the word
Limberlost Place, George Brown College’s 10-storey mass timber building at its T...
Labour

Invisible, irreplaceable: rebar specialist Kit Steel takes pride in work nobody sees
The website for Welland, Ont.’s Kit Steel features photos of fully-completed pro...
Labour

Vital overhaul of Burlington lift bridge pushes forward
The first phase of a $21-million overhaul of the iconic Burlington Canal Lift Br...
Labour

Ontario government launches credential recognition survey
TORONTO — The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development i...
Government , Labour

‘Demon’ the dog helps keep Gordie Howe Bridge site safe
Humans are usually responsible for safety on construction sites but on the Gordi...
Labour

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Prevailing wage will benefit all skilled trades workers
In the 2023 federal budget, the government proposed Investment Tax Credits for g...
Associations , Labour

Skilled trades career fairs visiting more cities this fall
TORONTO — Starting in September, the Ontario government is expanding its skilled...
Government , Labour

Abandoned gas station in St. John’s gets pumped up with a new purpose
Choices for Youth (CFY), a non-profit organization that offers young adults a va...
Labour , Projects

UPDATE: Ontario adds $160 million to skills training funding
TORONTO — Ontario is putting $160 million toward skills training programs, prior...
Government , Labour

Topping off reached for Limberlost Place
TORONTO - Ontario’s first mass-timber, net-zero carbon emissions institutional b...
Labour

Survey: Sponsorship, not mentorship, the answer to advancing women in construction
What women really need in order to advance in the construction industry is spons...
Labour , US News

Ontario targets more construction workers through OINP invitations
TORONTO — Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Develop...
Government , Labour

Power Workers’ Union members sign deal with Hydro One
TORONTO — Ontario’s Hydro One Inc. has announced that Power Workers' Union (PWU)...
Labour

Group of Seven painting inspires historic barn restoration
When Dale and Dave Cox drove up with the real estate agent to the old property i...
Labour

Your top DCN headlines: Aug. 7 to 11
Your top DCN headlines this week feature a story on a new sports complex in Whit...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , OH&S , Projects

MOL, Building Trades partner on three trades recruiting programs
TORONTO — The Ontario government has announced it is spending $3.6 million on th...
Government , Labour

Pilot program seeks to reward companies that better protect temporary foreign workers
OTTAWA — Ottawa is introducing a new three-year pilot program that would incenti...
Government , Labour

ICI contractors report urges shorter strikes, longer collective agreements
Two Ontario contractors associations are calling for reforms to provincial labou...
Labour

Unifor president demands SNC Lavalin reinstate fired union head
MONTREAL - The head of Canada's largest private sector union is calling out SNC-...
Labour

Unemployment rate ticks up to 5.5% in July as job creation lags population growth
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says employment was little changed last month as the...
Economic , Labour

Ontario invites trades candidates to apply for OINP
TORONTO — The Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Devel...
Government , Labour

Early 2023 workforce stats for women look strong
Maybe, just maybe, efforts to recruit more women into the construction workforce...
Labour

Government provides funding for more Trades & Tech Trucks
TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing $5.4 million to design and build t...
Government , Labour

Gateway to the north: Steer chronicles Ontario’s storied northern roadways
As thousands of Ontarians trek up north on vacation this summer, few give though...
Labour

Carpenters’ community mourns loss of Mark Lewis
TORONTO — The Carpenters’ Regional Council is mourning the loss of Mark Lewis, w...
Labour

STO launches new CoQ credentials program
GUELPH, ONT. — Skilled Trades Ontario (STO) has announced a new element of its s...
Labour

Big or small, off site constructors are building on their foundations
Multi-unit housing is one of the fastest growing areas of modular construction a...
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New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
Construction crews are presently doing civil work and finishing a substructure t...
Infrastructure , Projects

Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – August 2023
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Economic , Infrastructure , Projects

Stakeholders praise McNaughton legacy after surprise departure
The sudden announcement by Ontario Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and...
Associations , Government

Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
Infrastructure , Resource

Construction steel prices in 2023-24 expected to remain high
Western Canada’s steel prices are expected remain high over the next 2023-2024 p...
Economic , Resource

Mass timber ‘part of a collective solution’ to the housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis isn’t about to go away, but there are some strateg...
Resource

Crown withdraws charges against construction company in fatal Barrie crash
BARRIE, ONT. — Criminal charges against a construction company in a crash north...
OH&S

Canada Post unveils new Albert Jackson Processing Centre in Toronto
TORONTO — Canada Post has announced the grand opening of its new Albert Jackson...